The former Nintendo president gets wet and gives his opinion on the Google Stadia business model, which he believes will implement all the others in a decade.
Although Google Stadia and its streaming game proposal is having a hard time starting, it seems that there is someone willing to give it a cable. This is Reggie Fils-Aimé, former president of Nintendo of America, who has granted an interview to The Hollywood Reporter in which he says that this type of technology is about the future and is inevitable. “As technology advances and as the connection and download speed increase, we will move towards the cloud. There will come a time when you can play any game on any device and at any time, ”said Reggie, who was absolutely blunt. "It will happen over the next decade and it will mean a significant change for the players."
Google and Microsoft already bet on it
The former president of Nintendo, who since retiring last April has been teaching classes on "leadership, conscious capitalism and services" at the prestigious Cornell University, has momentarily returned to cover covers and headlines after his appearance in The Game Awards 2019, where he played host. An event in which the new Microsoft console, Xbox Series X, was presented, which also aims to reconcile its commitment to the past (it will have a disc reader and will be backward compatible with all the previous ones) with streaming game technology. At the end of the day, Microsoft has two services that seem destined to be understood and with which it has been experiencing for some time so that this game of playing in the cloud does not catch you by surprise: Xbox Game Pass and xCloud.
What is clear is that the videogame sector is changing, just as we were studying in an article by our partner Miguel Solo entitled “Subscriptions, Streaming and the future of videogame distribution”, which we cannot stop recommending to all interested in the subject Will Reggie succeed in his predictions?
